Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-03-19

among them the Iacte tuaI hio Pioholiou
will be in the line of civil service reform,
because his ideas agree with The Residents
on the silver and other financial questions
and on the subject Of tariff reform, because
he nails from New York, where the Presi-
dents fences need repairs, because he is
pressed by New Workers, and finally because
he ia related to the large and influential
Seymour family of his native State. On the
subject of the commission to be appointed
under the Interstate commerce bill, the gen.
tlemau referred to said. Mr.. Morrison would
certainly be the president of that commits
sion. In the course of the interview he
said the President is considerably
put out with both Mr. Randall and MIR.
Holman, attributing to them all the trouble
about the appropriation bills caused by the
delay in reporting those bills, and that
whereas Mr.. Randall had, early in the ad-
minstration, the disposal of almost the en-
tire federal patronage Of Pennsylvania, he
had little or mono now. and that the recent
appointment of the Harrisburg postmaster
was made against his protest. He also said,
and this will be satisfactory to democrats
throughout the country, that during the re-
naming two years of the administration it
will act more in accordance with the idea of
turning the rascals out" upon which it
was elected. as the evil effects OF pursuing
the opposite policy had become too con-
spicuous to be ignored any longer.
The talk here to-day is to the effect that
the interstate commerce commission will be
composed of Mr.. Morrison, of illinois, az
president, and Herman of New York, Cody
of Michigan, Bragg of Mississippi, and either
Judge Devens or Railroad Commissioner
Kingsley, of Massachusetts, and that the
official announcement Of the composition Of
the commission will be made as soon as
Governor Robinson, the republican govern
or of Massachusetts, who has returned to
Boston, shall decide which of the two latter
shall be selected This salary Of the mem.
beers of the commission is 81 800 year, over
twenty dollars day, including Sundays,
besides travelling expenses.
| A member of the Virginia delegation to
the national democratic convention Of 1880,
| here today, who had read paragraph in
this correspondence of few days ago, to the
effect that Mr.. Robert Garrett was posi-
BILE candidate for the Presidency, says that
at the convention referred to scheme was
proposed for making Mr. CARROTS father
the nominee, and that in certain contin'
gency several Southern States, including
Virginia, would have voted for him.
A Western man now here, who has been
down to Alexandria to look at the place,
having been attracted by the boom there,
SAWS Workmen can live cheaper there than
in any part of the West. Corn meal and
bacon, he says, are cheaper in the West, but
working men like good grub as we'll as
those who don't work, and that every other
article of food is cheaper in Alexandria than
in the West, and that rent is probably twice
as cheap.
| Secretary Endicott has returned, and was
| at his desk in the War Department to-day.
He reiterate5 his denial Of the existence Of
any i'll feeling between the President and
| himself.
AS sample of the way in which the ap.
preparation bills were prepared by the
House appropriations committee, it may be
stated that Commissioner Miller, of the in
| ternal revenue bureau, went before the sub
committee having the appropriation for that
bureau in charge, of which Mr.. Holman was
chairman; and stated that though he had
| dismissed thirty-two clerks, he thought his
force would be sufficient to attend TO the
additional business imposed by the oleo-
margarine bill if he were allowed an extra
| chief of division. When Mr.. Miller left the
room Mr.. Holman said, "be acknowledges
that he had too many clerks by dischargng
| thirty-twD of them, 80 if we allow him
an extra chief, we will pay the salary of that
chief by cutting of two moro clerks" and
| the bill was 30 formulated But when it was
presented to the full committee, Mr.. Ran
| dali, the chairman, said, ooh, we don't want
any more Chiefs" and struck out ths pro.
vision for one, but failed to strike out the
one for cutting off the two clerks.
Lieut. =. q. Strotber, U. s. A., at his own re-
quest. has been relieved from duty at the Virgin
| ia Agricultural College at Blacksburg.